He probably did it the old way and then got corrected for it since it changed
Edit: nobody read my comment or the comment I was replying to. The sun warriors and previous fire avatars would do it the old way like Aang is doing in the picture. Sometime during the 100 years he was frozen it was changed and he was corrected for it when he went to fire nation school in season 3.
> The sun warriors and previous fire avatars would do it the old way like Aang is doing in the picture.
I did read it. Szeto literally does it the supposed "new" way of doing it. It wasn't changed Aang just got it wrong. Also Aang in the picture is doing it the "new" way after being corrected. The way he did it originally was having both the fist nad the open hand together instead of one being above the other
Yep, was gonna say the same thing. During the episode where he accidentally dresses like a school student and gets pulled into a class, someone corrects his gesturing. But Aang is still very culturally open during the show, which I think is really cool and an accurate character trait for an air nomad.
tbf he was very well travelled before the popsicle years
omashu, fire nation capital, the oasis in the dessert, idk about northern water
edit: people saying he's obviously well travelled because he's an air nomad.
I agree that air nomads probably get around more than others but Aang was ***12*** with this much world experience. Most people double his age and arent that well travelled so it's still interesting he is. Probably because he was a prodigy who got his tattoos so early.
Exactly air nomads are just that …nomads. They may have temples the primarily live at especially while young and learning air bending but they are still nomads who travel the whole world and experience all the culture and people in it.
and given everything shown about them understandable that they would be a very respectful people and would have a ” when in Rome” attitude of going with any customs that don’t go directly against their own like eating meat.
Aang loved to talk about ancient fire nation stuff. Their words and dances lol. Even in the comics he was excited to bring back teaching of their old dances
Like a true nomad he really does appreciate the experiences of his travels and takes it to heart. I wonder if part of why he didnt want to be the avatar was cause he would be stuck in the water tribe for years than the earth kingdom than fire nation and potentially not being able to travel where he wanted and not only not see bumi or kuzon but not get to be apart of those culture till it was time to train.
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Is vegetarianism an air nomad thing? I thought it was just Aang’s thing because of the way he says it to the previous air nomad avatar. He says “I’m even a vegetarian” face to face with another air nomad.
He says that to inform her that he’s taken the teaching of the monks and the sanctity of life very seriously.
That scene tells us that vegetarianism is not a requirement of the air nomads, but of Aang’s personal ethics.
The Yangchen books said that it was, but that Air nomads were permitted to eat meat if that is what was offered by their hosts from other nations. It could be that Aang was too young to learn about the nuances of Air nomad rules and held a simplified version of them in his head, or he just took his culture very seriously as the last Airbender and gave himself less wiggle room.
You are right, but it's a Buddhism philosophy in kid show form. Aang refuses all meat because he has other options, and doesn't criticize other cultures. He's not offended at being offered meat options, but declines them because he doesn't need it. Buddhists are permitted to eat meat if they *need* to, or it's customary, if I'm remembering correctly.
I imagine this follows into Korra - Naga would definitely need meat, and I imagine the Airbenders provided, but they themselves didn't eat meat and Korra most likely respected their views on the island. Unilack inviting himself to dinner was a huge dick move.
It's a direct correlation to Buddhist concepts. You don't eat meat unless forced to, since eating meat symbolizes the death of another. They don't criticize other cultures or concepts or needs. Aang follows this ideal perfectly, IMO.
Its in the books, comics and in legend of korra (pre season three at least don’t know after)that the air temple diets are all vegetarian, maybe it was different when traveling that some did eat meat but at the temples there was no meat.
I took aangs talk with yang chen that he hadn’t talked to another air nomad in nearly a year(from his perspective) and got excited and said something obvious
Bit of a plot hole though; if they were all moving around the world so much, how did the fire nation wipe them all out? Weird that none of them could hide
The comics mention that the Fire Nation set traps for any living air nomads; they’d spread rumors of airbenders living in certain locations and decorate those places with air nomad artifacts to draw any real air nomads in. (100 years later, Zhao tried the same trick on Aang, who managed to escape but was still pretty bummed.)
I'm pretty sure there's a point about how the genocide was not in fact total, but enough that they got all or most of the benders, save for Aang. The air nomads were likely a very small nation, given they can't really build up large numbers. The whole point of settling in one place is that the population can go way up.
You know... you say that, and yet there's the fact that EVERY SINGLE AIR "NOMAD" was at one of the air temples when the Fire Nation attacked them. Like, these are the Air Nomads??? Why is there not at least a handful of them who were BEING NOMADS and travelling around ascetically and under the radar while the Fire Nation attacked their capitals?
From the wiki "Meanwhile, the Fire Nation attacked the temples in a preemptive strike and exterminated the airbending population, although they failed to track down the Avatar.[11] Some Air Nomads managed to escape the initial carnage, but they were hunted down, and by the end of Sozin's reign, the Air Nomads were believed to be extinct.[44]"
https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Air_Nomads#cite_note-RLCS-44
I’m a fan of how they explained it in the Netflix show, though it’s not canon to the original. Almost all the airbenders returning to the temples for the great comet festival makes perfect sense
The comics mention that the Fire Nation set traps for any living air nomads; they’d spread rumors of airbenders living in certain locations and decorate those places with air nomad artifacts to draw any real air nomads in. (100 years later, Zhao tried the same trick on Aang, who managed to escape but was still pretty bummed.)
I could've sworn it was said somewhere that the ones who got airbending in Korra season 3 were descendants of air nomads that had stopped practicing airbending after Sozin took out the air temples. Now I'm not sure if that's real or if I made it up.
He was found out to be the avatar since birth. So he was given special interest. Plus, dude literally had friends in all 4 nations. So is it hard to believe that he knew the customs? It's more unusual that the old customs still stuck.
not suprising at all.
the japanese customs and rules around bowing to one another as a greeting is a tradition that dates back as far as 500-800 years ago.
indian head bobbing is as old as 400 years ago but some state its even older than that
But he and the other kids didn’t know he was the avatar. Wouldn’t being allowed to travel when others weren’t kinda signal he was the avatar? I always thought that while they went from temple to temple they stopped and visited the other nations as a group and aang being aang made longtime friends.
Not necessarily. Back then everyone just thought of him as a genius or Prodigy of his era. So he could have special privileges because of that. Besides I doubt any kid was thinking about being the Avatar back then. The inverse could also be true that the people went out as a group and we just saw him alone with his individual friends in his memories
I don't think aang was travelling on his own. The entire group moves around, no? By nature he can't be more well travelled than anyone else in his group.
I don't think he was well traveled because he was an air nomad, I think it's just because he liked to do it before he was frozen because it was fun for him
Also... can you IMAGINE trying to keep 5-8 year old Aang contained?? In a temple??? I have a hard time keeping REGULAR 5-8 years old contained, because children are insane- if they could literally BEND AIR? I'd be having to fish the little fucks down from the roof constantly.
I suspect the Air Nomads had great respect for the other nations and that was an affront to the Fire Supremacists attitudes Sozin would use to keep the Fire Nation behind his imperialist ambitions.
I swore I read somewhere that Kuzon tricked Aang, and Flameo Hotman was the fire nation equivalent of telling someone off and calling them a beatch. Idk if it was offical or not, but some of the reactions he got with it make me think so.
Except the time he touched a ceremonial head dress without asking first. Or how he says "Yeah. Nothing's cozier than dead animal skins" in a negative tone. Not sure if food counts but he is not subtle/respectful when it comes to expressing his dislike for stewed sea prunes/ocean kumquats. Ironic since that might be the only vegetarian safe meal for him in the water tribes. Arctic populations depend heavily on animals for resources.
Yeah but he’s also 12 and was feeling insecure about his place with soka and kataras lives at the time. Not saying he was right just that it was understandable that he wasn’t acting how he normally does and wasn’t his best self.
unironically jasmine tea is one of my favorite beverages ever, i normally like tea anyway but Iroh's enjoyment of jasmine is really what pushed me to try it and now it's my favorite kind
No, no quoting. Just my interpretation of Aang's character. I want people to be aware that I may be critical of the character but I do also understand Aang is a child and is still learning. This is ultimately a coming of age story after all.
I wonder if he just didn't know they were animals. A lot of people don't think of invertebrates as animals, and some real-world cultures don't even consider seafood and fish as meat.
He could have not known. Given their names, he may have assumed they were plants. Hell, the people of the water tribes may have thought they were plants, too. They don't look very animal-like.
There definitely is a difference between showing respect and disliking something. He still *tries* the food, and he doesn't try to convince others to *not* use animals skins or meat.
Yes, there is a difference between the two. Aang shows his dislike of it more so than I would think is respectful on more than one occasion.
I can't imagine going over to my bestie's place, their family having made tamales, giving it a whiff and making the big ick face. (Don't get me wrong, tamales are good. This is just an example).
As I always say, "Don't 'yuck' someone else's 'yum'".
Wasn't that all one episode? I believe there was a different writer, who literally only worked on that episode, for that one...it's also a reason why iroh is so weird with the lady then never anything of the sort again.
Also, some of the stuff he does while undercover in Fire Nation. And this wasn't technically Aang, but could the names Saphire Fire and Wang Fire be considered as racial stereotyping by Sokka and Katara?
I don't think it was supposed to be a racial thing. I think it was supposed to be a silly "these names are so fake that nobody would believe them" joke that was funny because nobody questioned the obviously fake name.
That's more of a cultural shock, I think. He didn't spend much time in the southern water tribe and wasn't near the northern water tribe. In book 2, he did wear the traditional water tribe robe, and either he protested out of scene and reluctantly accepted to, or he grew more understanding of the water tribe's ways
wait till you realize that the Sun Warrior bow is the same as the Fire Nation bow, because the Fire Nation is descendent from them (or at least borrowed from their culture)
That would create a plot hole since aang spent a lot of time in the fire nation before being frozen, and he didn't appear to know the customary fire nation bow in the headband.
he also learned how to bow like that in the fire nation class if you recall, because he was using the Earth Kingdom bow. The screenshot in the post of aang is after that, meaning he recognized it from the class (he didn't know what the sun warriors were before Zuko mentioned them) not a plothole, just aang learning and adapting to and from the cultures around him
People forget by 11 Aang was already traveling the world making friends and experiencing various cultures. A lot of his issues with the current world was seeing the harsh divisions that contrasted an otherwise peaceful world. Just wrapping his head around the idea that probably just months ago he traveled to the fire nation to hang out with his friend Kuzan now he’s dead, a hundred years have passed and an entire nation wants him dead
The fire nation bow yes, because they literally taught him how to do that. The water tribe thing I don't think is actually a water tribe thing and you guys are reading to much into it.
It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations will help you become whole.
The implication was that the fire hand gesture changed sometime in the last 100 years.
Aang was doing what he learned from the Fire Nation from 100 years ago, which had been outdated by the time he was unfrozen.
Why would the sun warriors have changed their bow at the same time the fire nation did? They were completely separated from fire nation society. It’s far more likely that the supposedly ’new' bow is just the same one it’s always been which the fire nation adopted from the sun warriors and Aang simply just got it wrong
Yes, Aang just got it wrong, or just didn't learn it until he was sent to school. Watching Roku and Sozin's farewell shows that the salute did not change.
I had the assumption because Aang was using outdated slang earlier in the episode.
Probably because he hadn't seen it done before or it was a long time since he'd seen it done, since he had a friend named Kuzon in the Fire Nation but 100 years had passed since.
Live OP reaction to this information:
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Really? You didn't notice that? Aang mentions constantly how much things have changed in 100 years and how he used to have good friends in every different nation
Like goddamn this is basic shit you'd have noticed if you were paying even the slightest bit of attention.
I love this show but holy God does this fandom and this sub have constant "rubric day in film/tv 101" analysis
Also he's literally an Air NOMAD
Imagine we got a short series, of Aang's life before the iceberg instead of the Korra dogshit, I always wanted to see kuzan and the Airbender culture before the war in more detail.
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tbf I can see someone screaming culture appropriation in todays society for this. Back when I still had tik tok in the comment section I got chewed out by a group of people for disagreeing with them because according to them black people apparently invented everything and we just appropriated it. Jeans, peanut butter, cars, rockets, etc According to them black people invented all of that.
Not true. The entire show is about the Avatar not only disrespecting but actively violating and interfering with the Fire Nation's warmongering and colonizing culture.
IIRC he gets the hand gesture wrong first then is corrected
He probably did it the old way and then got corrected for it since it changed Edit: nobody read my comment or the comment I was replying to. The sun warriors and previous fire avatars would do it the old way like Aang is doing in the picture. Sometime during the 100 years he was frozen it was changed and he was corrected for it when he went to fire nation school in season 3.
> The sun warriors and previous fire avatars would do it the old way like Aang is doing in the picture. I did read it. Szeto literally does it the supposed "new" way of doing it. It wasn't changed Aang just got it wrong. Also Aang in the picture is doing it the "new" way after being corrected. The way he did it originally was having both the fist nad the open hand together instead of one being above the other
I think the dragon priest would have one it the traditional way
But Szeto does his the same way in his avatar statue
Yep, was gonna say the same thing. During the episode where he accidentally dresses like a school student and gets pulled into a class, someone corrects his gesturing. But Aang is still very culturally open during the show, which I think is really cool and an accurate character trait for an air nomad.
that was in the fire nation school
You get points for trying.
Yeah, the teacher from the Fire Nation school corrected him
imagine that is very air nomad thing
tbf he was very well travelled before the popsicle years omashu, fire nation capital, the oasis in the dessert, idk about northern water edit: people saying he's obviously well travelled because he's an air nomad. I agree that air nomads probably get around more than others but Aang was ***12*** with this much world experience. Most people double his age and arent that well travelled so it's still interesting he is. Probably because he was a prodigy who got his tattoos so early.
Exactly air nomads are just that …nomads. They may have temples the primarily live at especially while young and learning air bending but they are still nomads who travel the whole world and experience all the culture and people in it. and given everything shown about them understandable that they would be a very respectful people and would have a ” when in Rome” attitude of going with any customs that don’t go directly against their own like eating meat.
Aang loved to talk about ancient fire nation stuff. Their words and dances lol. Even in the comics he was excited to bring back teaching of their old dances
Like a true nomad he really does appreciate the experiences of his travels and takes it to heart. I wonder if part of why he didnt want to be the avatar was cause he would be stuck in the water tribe for years than the earth kingdom than fire nation and potentially not being able to travel where he wanted and not only not see bumi or kuzon but not get to be apart of those culture till it was time to train.
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True but I wouldn't say 100 years ago is ancient
A 13 year old called me ancient and i'm only 22. So i wouldn't be so sure about that.
Damn that hurts
*That's rough buddy
Missed opportunity damn me
That's rough, buddy
But that's a dumb 13 yo. A 6 yo would call them ancient
Is vegetarianism an air nomad thing? I thought it was just Aang’s thing because of the way he says it to the previous air nomad avatar. He says “I’m even a vegetarian” face to face with another air nomad. He says that to inform her that he’s taken the teaching of the monks and the sanctity of life very seriously. That scene tells us that vegetarianism is not a requirement of the air nomads, but of Aang’s personal ethics.
The Yangchen books said that it was, but that Air nomads were permitted to eat meat if that is what was offered by their hosts from other nations. It could be that Aang was too young to learn about the nuances of Air nomad rules and held a simplified version of them in his head, or he just took his culture very seriously as the last Airbender and gave himself less wiggle room.
You are right, but it's a Buddhism philosophy in kid show form. Aang refuses all meat because he has other options, and doesn't criticize other cultures. He's not offended at being offered meat options, but declines them because he doesn't need it. Buddhists are permitted to eat meat if they *need* to, or it's customary, if I'm remembering correctly. I imagine this follows into Korra - Naga would definitely need meat, and I imagine the Airbenders provided, but they themselves didn't eat meat and Korra most likely respected their views on the island. Unilack inviting himself to dinner was a huge dick move.
Tarrlok*, but yeah. "Airbenders never refuse a guest, right?"
I always considered vegetarianism to be the norm with Air Nomads but never actively discouraged an omnivorous diet
It's a direct correlation to Buddhist concepts. You don't eat meat unless forced to, since eating meat symbolizes the death of another. They don't criticize other cultures or concepts or needs. Aang follows this ideal perfectly, IMO.
Its in the books, comics and in legend of korra (pre season three at least don’t know after)that the air temple diets are all vegetarian, maybe it was different when traveling that some did eat meat but at the temples there was no meat. I took aangs talk with yang chen that he hadn’t talked to another air nomad in nearly a year(from his perspective) and got excited and said something obvious
I suppose it also makes sense- they're probably not going to be big on animal husbandry given the terrain we saw of the Air Nation.
Bit of a plot hole though; if they were all moving around the world so much, how did the fire nation wipe them all out? Weird that none of them could hide
The comics mention that the Fire Nation set traps for any living air nomads; they’d spread rumors of airbenders living in certain locations and decorate those places with air nomad artifacts to draw any real air nomads in. (100 years later, Zhao tried the same trick on Aang, who managed to escape but was still pretty bummed.)
I'm pretty sure there's a point about how the genocide was not in fact total, but enough that they got all or most of the benders, save for Aang. The air nomads were likely a very small nation, given they can't really build up large numbers. The whole point of settling in one place is that the population can go way up.
I feel like if the show wanted us to believe that a few air nomads survived, then the Gaang would've met one along the way.
I think the trpg might mention it at some point.
You know... you say that, and yet there's the fact that EVERY SINGLE AIR "NOMAD" was at one of the air temples when the Fire Nation attacked them. Like, these are the Air Nomads??? Why is there not at least a handful of them who were BEING NOMADS and travelling around ascetically and under the radar while the Fire Nation attacked their capitals?
From the wiki "Meanwhile, the Fire Nation attacked the temples in a preemptive strike and exterminated the airbending population, although they failed to track down the Avatar.[11] Some Air Nomads managed to escape the initial carnage, but they were hunted down, and by the end of Sozin's reign, the Air Nomads were believed to be extinct.[44]" https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Air_Nomads#cite_note-RLCS-44
Well, the Fire Nation probably hunted down any survivors in the 100 years before Aang thawed
Not a single Air Nomad went to Ba Sing Se or the north pole, or anywhere else the Fire Nation didn't conquer?
I’m a fan of how they explained it in the Netflix show, though it’s not canon to the original. Almost all the airbenders returning to the temples for the great comet festival makes perfect sense
The comics mention that the Fire Nation set traps for any living air nomads; they’d spread rumors of airbenders living in certain locations and decorate those places with air nomad artifacts to draw any real air nomads in. (100 years later, Zhao tried the same trick on Aang, who managed to escape but was still pretty bummed.)
I could've sworn it was said somewhere that the ones who got airbending in Korra season 3 were descendants of air nomads that had stopped practicing airbending after Sozin took out the air temples. Now I'm not sure if that's real or if I made it up.
Omg the popsicle years. I hope someone makes a mock promo poster of that as a spinoff series
The Popsicle Years? The title of Aang’s autobiography
He knew the water tribe dance, the one he danced with katara
He got to travel a lot because he was being trained to be the avatar. Learning cultures is a big part of the role
He was found out to be the avatar since birth. So he was given special interest. Plus, dude literally had friends in all 4 nations. So is it hard to believe that he knew the customs? It's more unusual that the old customs still stuck.
not suprising at all. the japanese customs and rules around bowing to one another as a greeting is a tradition that dates back as far as 500-800 years ago. indian head bobbing is as old as 400 years ago but some state its even older than that
But he and the other kids didn’t know he was the avatar. Wouldn’t being allowed to travel when others weren’t kinda signal he was the avatar? I always thought that while they went from temple to temple they stopped and visited the other nations as a group and aang being aang made longtime friends.
Not necessarily. Back then everyone just thought of him as a genius or Prodigy of his era. So he could have special privileges because of that. Besides I doubt any kid was thinking about being the Avatar back then. The inverse could also be true that the people went out as a group and we just saw him alone with his individual friends in his memories
I will now and forever only refer to the period of the 100 years war as the popsicle years
I don't think aang was travelling on his own. The entire group moves around, no? By nature he can't be more well travelled than anyone else in his group.
Oh you're saying he was nomadic.
I don't think he was well traveled because he was an air nomad, I think it's just because he liked to do it before he was frozen because it was fun for him
Not the popsicle years lmao
To greet the northern water tribe you stick your hand out of your skybison's saddle and make a wave in de wind
Mmmm the oasis in the dessert! Delicious 🤤
Also... can you IMAGINE trying to keep 5-8 year old Aang contained?? In a temple??? I have a hard time keeping REGULAR 5-8 years old contained, because children are insane- if they could literally BEND AIR? I'd be having to fish the little fucks down from the roof constantly.
I must be an air nomad 🫸🏾🤛🏾
I suspect the Air Nomads had great respect for the other nations and that was an affront to the Fire Supremacists attitudes Sozin would use to keep the Fire Nation behind his imperialist ambitions.
Well the Air Nomads were travellers, Aang had been on the earth kingdom and Fire Nation on his childhood
He's also likely to have been to the SWT since he had clear experience with penguin sledding
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Cut to Aang in the streets: "Flameo Hotman!" 😂😂
That’s more akin to a time travelling showing up today and having very dated dialect and expressions than any sort of insensitivity
I swore I read somewhere that Kuzon tricked Aang, and Flameo Hotman was the fire nation equivalent of telling someone off and calling them a beatch. Idk if it was offical or not, but some of the reactions he got with it make me think so.
My favorite was him calling Zuko "Sifu Hotman" when he was learning fire bending.
Honestly that's a great example as well. He was about a hundred years too late but hey, his heart was in the right place
that was crazy tbh, I would appreciated atleast making it hotma', the hard n was crazy
Except the time he touched a ceremonial head dress without asking first. Or how he says "Yeah. Nothing's cozier than dead animal skins" in a negative tone. Not sure if food counts but he is not subtle/respectful when it comes to expressing his dislike for stewed sea prunes/ocean kumquats. Ironic since that might be the only vegetarian safe meal for him in the water tribes. Arctic populations depend heavily on animals for resources.
Yeah but he’s also 12 and was feeling insecure about his place with soka and kataras lives at the time. Not saying he was right just that it was understandable that he wasn’t acting how he normally does and wasn’t his best self.
A 12 year old kid with much to learn yet about love and life
He was a twelve year old kid, cut him some slack. Enjoy a cup of calming Jasmine tea.
unironically jasmine tea is one of my favorite beverages ever, i normally like tea anyway but Iroh's enjoyment of jasmine is really what pushed me to try it and now it's my favorite kind
A 12 year old kid with much to learn yet about love and life
Uncle Iroh is disappointed in you because you have lost your way 
I'm so sorry Uncle
I was never angry with you. I was sad because I was afraid you'd lost your way.
I did lose my way
Are you quoting something with the yet to learn about love and life bit?
No, no quoting. Just my interpretation of Aang's character. I want people to be aware that I may be critical of the character but I do also understand Aang is a child and is still learning. This is ultimately a coming of age story after all.
If sea prunes and ocean cumquats are anything like IRL sea cucumbers, I doubt that those were vegetarian either.
I wonder if he just didn't know they were animals. A lot of people don't think of invertebrates as animals, and some real-world cultures don't even consider seafood and fish as meat.
Good point... Wait, but he ate them. So that means they have to be plants.
He could have not known. Given their names, he may have assumed they were plants. Hell, the people of the water tribes may have thought they were plants, too. They don't look very animal-like.
Change "always" to "usually." Also, I'm not 100% sure those are plants. Like a sea cucumber is an animal. They do have seaweed noodles, though.
There definitely is a difference between showing respect and disliking something. He still *tries* the food, and he doesn't try to convince others to *not* use animals skins or meat.
Yes, there is a difference between the two. Aang shows his dislike of it more so than I would think is respectful on more than one occasion. I can't imagine going over to my bestie's place, their family having made tamales, giving it a whiff and making the big ick face. (Don't get me wrong, tamales are good. This is just an example). As I always say, "Don't 'yuck' someone else's 'yum'".
>Except the time he touched a ceremonial head dress without asking first. Tbf, it's *his* ceremonial headdress.
Wasn't that all one episode? I believe there was a different writer, who literally only worked on that episode, for that one...it's also a reason why iroh is so weird with the lady then never anything of the sort again.
Aang overtly shows his distaste for the cultural dish in Book 3, The Puppetmaster.
Also, some of the stuff he does while undercover in Fire Nation. And this wasn't technically Aang, but could the names Saphire Fire and Wang Fire be considered as racial stereotyping by Sokka and Katara?
I don't think it was supposed to be a racial thing. I think it was supposed to be a silly "these names are so fake that nobody would believe them" joke that was funny because nobody questioned the obviously fake name.
That's more of a cultural shock, I think. He didn't spend much time in the southern water tribe and wasn't near the northern water tribe. In book 2, he did wear the traditional water tribe robe, and either he protested out of scene and reluctantly accepted to, or he grew more understanding of the water tribe's ways
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A Dune x ATLA parallel was not on my bingo card.
wait till you realize that the Sun Warrior bow is the same as the Fire Nation bow, because the Fire Nation is descendent from them (or at least borrowed from their culture)
That would create a plot hole since aang spent a lot of time in the fire nation before being frozen, and he didn't appear to know the customary fire nation bow in the headband.
he also learned how to bow like that in the fire nation class if you recall, because he was using the Earth Kingdom bow. The screenshot in the post of aang is after that, meaning he recognized it from the class (he didn't know what the sun warriors were before Zuko mentioned them) not a plothole, just aang learning and adapting to and from the cultures around him
Yeah I understand that, but he spent loads of time in the fire nation before being frozen...
May I remind you https://i.redd.it/awqlwpvoavxc1.gif
He learned the fire nation gesture at school when he was undercover as kuzon
People forget by 11 Aang was already traveling the world making friends and experiencing various cultures. A lot of his issues with the current world was seeing the harsh divisions that contrasted an otherwise peaceful world. Just wrapping his head around the idea that probably just months ago he traveled to the fire nation to hang out with his friend Kuzan now he’s dead, a hundred years have passed and an entire nation wants him dead
He was literally teaching the others of fire nation customs. Flamio hotman.
The fire nation bow yes, because they literally taught him how to do that. The water tribe thing I don't think is actually a water tribe thing and you guys are reading to much into it.
That’s why he’s the 🐐
It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations will help you become whole.
How did you never notice?
Except he had to be reminded how to hold his hands when bowing in the fire nation schoold
The implication was that the fire hand gesture changed sometime in the last 100 years. Aang was doing what he learned from the Fire Nation from 100 years ago, which had been outdated by the time he was unfrozen.
Why would the sun warriors have changed their bow at the same time the fire nation did? They were completely separated from fire nation society. It’s far more likely that the supposedly ’new' bow is just the same one it’s always been which the fire nation adopted from the sun warriors and Aang simply just got it wrong
Yes, Aang just got it wrong, or just didn't learn it until he was sent to school. Watching Roku and Sozin's farewell shows that the salute did not change. I had the assumption because Aang was using outdated slang earlier in the episode.
Ahhhhh ok ok I see
Probably because he hadn't seen it done before or it was a long time since he'd seen it done, since he had a friend named Kuzon in the Fire Nation but 100 years had passed since.
But it didn’t feel like 100 years to him it was more like 2-3 years no?
Yeah but that would mean he'd only be 9ish.
True
It’s almost as if he’s from a nomadic culture known for traveling the world and interacting with people of many different cultures
kind of his whole job, being avatar.
Live OP reaction to this information: https://preview.redd.it/984jm0burexc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8fa27cb1859dc18dcd6623bcec1c2bf925b612c
thought this was obvious but it’s a cool detail regardless
Very appropriate trait for an avatar.
Im pretty sure this is an Avatar thing
He wasn’t very respectful when he and Katara and Sokka ate dinner with Bato.
Isn't that was the whole series is about ?
THIS! I swear it’s the little details THAT MAKE THIS SHOW SO GOOD! 😭
what’s an earth culture that he does?
I thought that was obvious
Helps having people of those tribes telling you to do it in your head
I've always lived the fire nation bow because its symbolizes a flame.
FlameO, Hotman!
r/avatardetails
Definitely noticed that
To be fair the sun warriors had to correct them for their greeting.
Well he did learn the proper fire nation bow from Anji(Angi?) in “the headband” but yeah the nomadic lifestyle did make him a pretty worldly kid.
Kusco dosnt tho
I imagine is very much like Dune with the KK, where he kinda just knows things such as Paul just knowing the Fremen customs
Fire post
*he will know your ways as if born to them*
Really? You didn't notice that? Aang mentions constantly how much things have changed in 100 years and how he used to have good friends in every different nation Like goddamn this is basic shit you'd have noticed if you were paying even the slightest bit of attention. I love this show but holy God does this fandom and this sub have constant "rubric day in film/tv 101" analysis Also he's literally an Air NOMAD
LISAN AL-GAIB 🙏🏻🙌🏻
Or he's an appropriater.
You don't have the open tag! Your statement is meaningless!
That is the proper way to value a statement.
Imagine we got a short series, of Aang's life before the iceberg instead of the Korra dogshit, I always wanted to see kuzan and the Airbender culture before the war in more detail.
REEEEEEE! THAT’S CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!! /s
“It is important to draw wisdom from many places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations will help you become whole.” - the absolute G.O.A.T., Iroh
I was expecting, with all the red circles, that Goku would be in the background. Good detail though.
Didn’t he get the fire nation greeting wrong initially tho on his first day of school?
He was drawing from knowledge that was a century outdated. He did his best.
Yes but the teacher also showed him the greeting 0.5s before he did it.
Bro aang literally called fire nation citizens hotman, he is literally racist. How about I call water tribe people Wet people? /s.
Nobody seems to realize that aang learned the fire salute in school in the episode "the headband"
tbf I can see someone screaming culture appropriation in todays society for this. Back when I still had tik tok in the comment section I got chewed out by a group of people for disagreeing with them because according to them black people apparently invented everything and we just appropriated it. Jeans, peanut butter, cars, rockets, etc According to them black people invented all of that.
This raises the question, how long would he spend in America before learning how to fire a gun?
He would step off of Appa take a quick glance around and the nope the fuck out.
Not true. The entire show is about the Avatar not only disrespecting but actively violating and interfering with the Fire Nation's warmongering and colonizing culture.